Steve Austin has over 20 years of experience training, competing and teaching martial arts. He talks about overcoming a childhood disease, dealing with bullying as a kid and why it’s important to reach kids who are bullies as well as their victims. Click “read more” for show notes! SHOW NOTES:

• Origins
• Overcoming a childhood hip disease
• How bullying led him to martial arts
• Theory-based martial arts
• His process of accepting new youth students
• Explaining Jiu-Jitsu to parents
• Life lessons from bullying
• Taking bullies in as students
• Verbal Jiu-Jitsu
• Jiu-Jitsu as therapy
• Self defense Jiu-Jitsu
• His MMA experience
• The Pummel
• The birth and growth of his school
• How not having an affiliation has affected his school and his own journey
• Future goals